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Three Bridge Fiasco and Alameda Marina tenants

Read if you are an Alameda Marina dry dock tenant.

I just returned from the marina where I spoke with Cathy from the harbormaster office. She informed me that all this hoist are broken and not expected to be serviceable for a couple of weeks. That means that if your boat is on the dry, you will not be able to drop for the race. I've made her aware of the impact, particularly for next weeks TBF race.

She was trying to come up with solutions and I recommended to her they do the following, as that is a service we pay for:
1. They could hire a movable crane for the weekend and drop and pick up people's boat
2. Even better, have Svends boat yard drop the boats for us with their lifts.

If you are a tenant impacted by this, I will ask that you call the harbormaster office and let them know your need to drop and raise your boat next weekend. It might require that we drop boats on Friday and pick up Monday, so do plan additional logistics.

But please do call the harbor master. Cathy was trying to identify boats and communicate with the owners, but now you know.

Also, SSS board, you might be able through jibeset to search registrants that have their boats in Alameda Marina and let them know of the situation.

Just received this email

Originally Posted by 3D

Yikes!!!!

Thanks for the heads-up Dan....I'll give the office a call.

-3D

Dear Tenant,

We regret to inform you the 3-ton hoist at our Marina is currently inoperable due to motor failure. We expect to have the repairs completed within the next few weeks. Feel free to call our office with any questions.

As for expectation that they will pay $$$ to rent a crane with operator or pay Svendsen's hundreds each to launch/haul a few dozen boats might be more than wishful thinking.

Last time I got into it with them they said "there is no guarantee the hoist will be operational or unlocked anytime" and was reminded it's in the contract that basically your only renting the storage space.